A Tar-Heel Baron

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e's cry at her cruelty. The thumping of her heart shook her body mercilessly. The anguish of her soul dried her throat, and

ot too late!" was

came the sound of a vo

ter my humiliation, and you have not the courage to own your falseness. And now, when I demand from you the satisfaction that most surely

gure on the Doctor's

ick of the opening gun, followed by the drop of a shell into an open palm. "Ac

he air-the sound of

American, Ah could make you

saw above them against the fleckless blue of the heavens the brilliant figure of the girl, her hands straining

o men silently dismounted as she approached, and pulled off their ca

was hardly whisper-high, so labored was her breathing. She he

don't! I came-- You mustn't

ng hands in his, and reverently kisse

ry humiliation. Until now this was la

broke into the thic

ipped in spite of the beating of her heart-stared in silence at the copse as

old man's keen blue eyes withdrew themselves from the woo

nd added, mentally,

yet a look of question that seemed to implore her old friend for an explanation that might save him to her

mb crazy,"

ips formed a s

is head that Ah've done hi

no

e means, but he harps on it, and he sent me a challe

ob brou

im out of that vein without hurting his foreign feelings, but Ah couldn't think of anythi

-shot was

lored dimly u

humorous when Ah was loading up the guns at ho

ink so. I sh

elt too uncontrolled to allow herself

find some way of watching him. Ah suppose he won't let me on his plac

her hand to her

w. Back ther

You seem tired to death,

and ten minutes to t

rself wearily up to

utes to the foot of

m ho

let you do such a fool thing fo'?" he ej

I think it was-I don't know where it was

looked at

nough; better than he can of you, by the looks of it. Sit

ing over her threateningly when she hesitat

It's the only thing on earth that's healt

, and she resigned herself to the Doctor's commands with the blessed feeling of reli

chestnuts made

it B

er to carry a girl to ride," he continued, as Bob tied the horse to one of the chestnuts and

is father's gibes, but be

come. It's been too hard a ride. It's all my fault," he went on, accusingly, whi

. I made you promise, and I couldn't have forg

rock, and the Doctor broke

s Gray

alked the steep part of the trail, so I tied

lked up

bald. That scared me to death, for I thought he'd made way with Sydney in some myst

quickly at Sydney,

" was all h

very foot of the mountain. At the tobacco barn the Doctor untied Gr

Sydney to him as they parted at his gate. "You'll not for

he Pinkertons' eye that never sleep

e servant told them at the door, and Sydney assu

erywhere with me this morning. You'll forgive me, Kat

from Ashev

if they grow more and more uncertain, and when there are only two a day each way, it certainly is a

ain couldn't have been much over an hour behi

days," said John, sitting down, "and had

Square that makes you thi

s on the library b

reet-cars?" a

-cars to burn-electric ones, too. I felt g

oll. "Time was when a handsome pair of mules was cons

ch, either," said Bob. "They're too

ent saddle-horses in

s thei

single-foot

rld," put in Bob, combative

a Derby hat in the who

pt on colored coachmen,"

u drive

unction of the Swannanoa and the French Broad. I flogged a rebellious horse to Gold View, and I scaled Beaumont an

t grow much now,"

e Federal Building. That's the fullest beehive for its size, isn

States Court on

a victim, I

own is filled with the rural population who are interested i

lf the town looked egregiously rural. Now I think of it,

the first Monday

. Know then, good people, that this humble worm that you see before you has had the honor of

g out

flag-station of Flora the distinguis

after so

of them is. Mrs. Carroll, how can you expect the less fortunate part of your community to keep in t

you mea

called 'The Titled Moonshiner;

h dawning comprehension, yet without th

n Rittenheim, our neighbor and good friend?" The

to be, not an angel in disguise, but a deputy-marshal on his way to Asheville. Not knowing the official position of his visitor, von Rittenheim sold him a quart of whisky of his own vinta

ndignation. Bob's eyes were fixed upon Sydney, and s

is why he didn't come h

ed States Court, and, as that comes in on Monday, you unde

ow!" murmu

I should like to have some one tell me," demanded Mr

ctly," Bob suggested. "The Asheville

ng eyes, for she thought she had a clue to the words that had come to h